Peace & blessings of Allah be upon you all
I recently received this forwarded e-mail, which suggests the 'death' of Michael Jackson could be a murder conspiracy. Reading this e-mail, i can't help but be moved by some of the elements. I'll split this blog post into two parts; the actual e-mail contents and my comments
The "Story"
"Michael Jackson (MJ) was known as the most loving person in the world. He gave up most of his assets for charity and all his life, he fought for equality of the African Americans, AIDS victims, Against Drug Abuse,Against Abortion, Against Child Labor and secretly channelled his properties for the hungry children of the world. However, he wasn't peace at heart. He always think of himself as a child trapped inside a man's body. Being Peter Pan is all his dream, never to grow up, forever a child. That inspires him to build Neverland - a heaven for children. Children of all ages and races are welcomed to Neverland. MJ had so much love to give.
However, he made a mistake which he didn't know of the consequences. He saw the peaceful life his brother, Jermaine (Muhammad Abdul Aziz) had as a Muslim - true, Jermaine faced so much pressure that he moved to Bahrain.
In 1989, MJ made a press conference which shocked the world, "I have seen the Islam in the life of my brother, I have read the books about Islam. And I'd love to someday feel the calmness and peace of Islam...."
Since that, MJ's life was never the same again. He was accused of so many accusations against child molestation. MJ was not someone who can deal with much pressure as he is a 'delicate child'. All the extortion and black mail followed after that. Everything he did was being seen as wrong in the eyes of the Media. All these are to influence his fans to hate MJ. If he is hated, then he would not be influencial anymore.
For several years, he stayed in England. Getting motivation from a long time friend, Cat Stevens, who had converted into Islam - named Yusuf Islam. From him, MJ learnt how Yusuf had survived being Muslim. He made friends with a song writer, Zain Bhikha too, who wrote a song titled, "GIVE THANKS TO ALLAH", which he wanted MJ to sing whenever he is ready.
Following his trial, MJ withdrew to Bahrain, where he was the special guest of sheik Abdullah bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the son of Bahrain's king. It was then that Michael began to give conversion more "serious thought."MJ stayed in Bahrain for approximately 3 years. He studied Islam, the prayers and learn to read the Koran (al-Quran).
Finally, he came back to Los Angeles and in November 2008 MJ had formally converted to Islam in a ceremony at a close friend's house in Los Angeles. He perform Haj with the King of Bahrain and son on December 2008.
He had a hidden agenda when he wanted to make a final comeback. He annouced in a press conference on March 2009, "This will be my final concert. I'll see you all in July...."
He planned that during his concert, he would announce that this is the FINAL concert as he wouldn't be performing anymore. He will declare that he is a Muslim and will only sing with Yusuf Islam and Friends. At the end of the concert, he will be singing the song, "GIVE THANKS TO ALLAH" with Yusuf Islam. That is the reason why he chose London as his final concert venue instead of the USA. It was because he thought he could escape the USA's extortion, and that he could perform with yusuf Islam who is in England.
At 12.30am, 25th June 2009, he hugged his production manager and said, "After reherasing for 2 months, I am finally ready for the concert..." Before leaving to sleep, he waved his dancers, "It was a good night everyone. I'll see you all tomorrow..." The next thing... He was pronouced dead at 2.26am....
When 911 was called, there are so much questions asked. It is as if they didn't know who MJ is and where he lived. The questions asked are more towards to delay time. The hospital said the autopsy result can only be obtained after 2 months - very illogical as even the worst African technology could obtain the result in less than 2 weeks.
MJ's family members opt for second private autopsy as they started to feel something fishy is going on. The result came out in about 4 days - MJ was drugged with high dosage of anaesthetic - drug that brings about a reversible loss of consciousness, if used to much could stop the heart from beating.
Another result which was not aired in the media was, MJ's stomach is empty of this drug, but his blood were filled with it - same case as the death of Marilyn Monroe. The private doctors also found many needle marks, afraid to be forced injections given to MJ on his bed.
In CNN Live after a week, Barack Obama was interviewed. And he said, "I love MJ, I grew up listening to his songs. It is a great loss, but rest assured that there is no conspiracy in his death..." Now, why must a President made such statement before the official autopsy result came out? How would he know that there is no conspiracy without the
post-mortem result? Seems like someone is afraid of his shadows.
MJ was known to the world as a person who is against drug abuse. Why must he be addicted to drug, then? If he wanted to commit suicide, why rehearse for his concert? And why will he want to see his dancers the next day?
Enough about his death. I am sure people around the world is not stupid anymore. These supreme power can fool us during the Marilyn Monroe conspiracy, Martin Luther King and Princess Diana. But in this MJ's case, they left too many loopholes for those who think...!!
MJ left us with this unfinished studio-recorded song, GIVE THANKS TO ALLAH. You can download this song here: http://www.filefactory.com/file/ahb80ff/n/Micheal_Jackson_-_Give_Thanks_To_Allah_mp3
MJ's family was about to give him a Muslim burial with the help of The Brotherhood of Islam. But, the CIA showed up at Neverland's door - blackmailed them that if they do so publicly, Katherine (MJ's mother) would be pull off from MJ's 3 children's custody as well as MJ's estates. Instead, they'll hire Debbie Rowe for the purpose, and the court will be in
their favour. So much for democracy and fairness...
Finally, they agreed to let MJ have a Muslim Burial in Neverland. But in condition, must show to the public a Christian Memorial Service, as to prove to the world that MJ was never a Muslim.
So, Staples Centre was just a normal show. That's why the coffin was closed and sealed.
MJ was buried days earlier. The Gold Coffin was empty. They were about to bury the Coffin according to Christianity ways in Hollywood - as in their deal with the USA Government.
These happened, because the USA is afraid of the rising numbers of Muslims in the world.
(Sheikh Ha**d)
The Brotherhood of Islam
Buletin of Bahrain"
My thoughts
Forget about the conspiracy. In fact, let's forget about the whole 2nd half of the e-mail. What grabbed my heart here is the perspective of MJ's life. Granted of course, some of it may be true and some of it may be not, but for purposes of reminding ourselves, let us just assume this entire story to be true =)
Let's really take some time to think about it, brothers and sisters.
Life before & after Islam
Here we have a pop singer. Not just any singer - 'The King of Pop', so to speak. Perhaps one of the most successful musicians in history - if one were to look at his material posessions, he had it all.
And yet, look at his state of mind. 'He always think of himself as a child trapped inside a man's body. Being Peter Pan is all his dream, never to grow up, forever a child. That inspires him to build Neverland - a heaven for children.' Here we have a man who never truly felt 'at peace' - conflicted with his own identity. I mean, seriously, by one's 40s, most people don't feel this kind of identity crisis and never feeling the true happiness and satisfaction that life had to offer.
Yet this man did. And whether that caused this man further grief, we'll perhaps never know; Allahu a'lam. But he did discover peace... through his brother, Jermaine, a.k.a Muhammad Abdul 'Aziz - one who lived in calmness and peace after his reversion to Islam... Allahu Akbar!
These people knew how it was like to feel empty inside and having no ultimate purpose. And then when Islam came, it fulfilled their emptiness and gave them peace of mind. They knew what it was like to have a heart that was finally alive after being dead all these years!!! This is indeed the gift of the sweetness of iman! Ibn Taymiyyah once said that “if the kings knew the happiness and sweetness that we felt, even they would try to obtain iman and pry it away from our barehands”!
Being born-Muslim, it is easy to overlook these things... and we take this blessing for granted. Sometimes we take 'religion' as a burden, always procrastinating things and putting them so low on our priority at times. Yet, were we to feel the emptiness of heart, the grief and the sorrow from disbelief and lack of iman, we'll never understand true happiness ever again and would lead miserable lives.
In one incident, 'Umar Al-Khattab, remembering his days of Jahilliyyah (days of ignorance before embracing Islam), laughed to himself, and suddenly he cried. When he was asked, he said, "i laughed because remembered in one incident, i went out to travel but i forgot to carry my 'mini stone idol'. So i got restless, and i took a date fruit and carved my 'god' from that date fruit. So during my travels, i would pray to that fruit. Until there came a time, when i got so hungry, and I had nothing to eat except that 'god'. So i ate that god'. Then he explained why he cried, and he said, that during the days of ignorance, he buried his daughter alive. And while he was digging a grave to plant her in, some dirt stained his beard, and his daughter, while being buried, seeing this dirt, went up to 'umar and wiped the dirt away from his beard. And he continued to bury her anyway. That is what made 'umar cry.
Before the coming of Islam... 'umar never felt that these 2 acts were strange... in the times of jahiliyyah these things seemed perfectly normal.
Ponder over this, brothers and sisters - the gift of Islam is truly beautiful!
Salvation just before death..
The Prophet (SAW) said: "I swear by Allah - there is no God but He - one of you may perform the deeds of the people of Paradise till there is naught but an arm's length between him and it, when that which has been written will outstrip him so that he performs the deeds of the people of the Hell Fire; one of you may perform the deeds of the people of the Hell Fire, till there is naught but an arm's length between him and it, when that which has been written will overtake him so that he performs the deeds of the people of Paradise and enters therein." (Sahih al-Bukhari)
Here we have a man who lived about what, 40 years of his life, being a pop star, a musician. We all know the kind of life that a 'famous pop star' usually surrounds him self with - Sex, Drugs, and Rock'N'Roll goes the famous saying. And finally, at the end of his life, he converted to Islam. To islam... all his previous sins, by the Mercy, Love and Grace of Allah, all of it erased completely - as sinless as a newborn baby. Not only that, but MJ managed to perform Hajj before death!
At the very last few moments of his life, he embraced Islam, and insya Allah if he died as a Muslim, he will live to enjoy paradise for all eternity!! Allahu Akbaar!
How many of us will be able to die as Muslims? How many of us have repented enough to die in a state of our sins being forgiven by Allah? How many of us will even be able to perform Hajj before death?
So great is the Mercy of Allah, that He allowed MJ the chance to save himself. We must remember, brothers and sisters - just because we are Muslim, doesn't mean we are definitely saved. We need to constantly remind ourselves and remain firm in our faith! As the Prophet stated in the hadith above, that just like embracing islam at the end of one's life will cause him eternal salvation and happiness, likewise, an evil deed at the very last moments of our lives might cause damnation for all eternity. We seek Allah's refuge from that, and we ask that He makes us steadfast and firm in our religion.
The good man that was MICHAEL JACKSON
We all know, that Michael was a very generous fella. He'd give lots of money to charity, and in fact it is said that the charity that he has made public is only a small portion of the actual amount of charity that he had given in secret. One may ask, does he get any reward for all the charity he did during his pre-islamic days?
'Urwah ibn al-Zubayr reported that Hakeem ibn Hizaam told him that he said to the Messenger of Allaah (SAW): "O Messenger of Allaah, do you think that I will be rewarded for the (good) things like giving charity, freeing slaves and upholding family ties that I did during the Jaahiliyyah (days of ignorance before Islam)?"
The Messenger of Allaah (SAW) said: "You became Muslim because of the good that you had already done." (Reported by al-Bukhaari).
As a result of his sincere charitable deeds, being guided to Islam is Allah's reward to MJ. Now, can anybody think of a better reward than Paradise? Peace, happiness, bliss, for all eternity?
A conspiracy against Islam - really?
Most people will begin to look at the bleak story that involves the conspiracy of the murder of Mikael. That perhaps somone wanted him 'dead' before he could succeed his final world tour to publically announce that he embraced Islam? But then again - so what?
Think about it, friends. He was rehearsing to get back into the music biz one last time. In a world tour once again. Now we all know that during Michael Jackson concerts, a lot of crazy stuff happens. People go wild, hysterical and insane. All the madness, all the evil deeds that take place in the concert.
But Allah has taken away MJ's life before allowing him to distort his iman and be answerable to these sins. Nothing happens except by the will and infinite Wisdom of Allah, and perhaps the great Hikmah (wisdom) behind this is that Mikael is saved before he gets a chance to get back to his swan song.
And these 'facts' which suggest the conspiracy is bound to attract a lot of attention from the mass public. Despite all the things he has been accused of, let's face it - people love Michael Jackson. And to know that this man embraced Islam before his death - that's bound to attract some attention to Islam. Perhaps this 'conspiracy' might even be a victory for islam!
Just like the incident of Hudaibiyah, during the time of the Prophet Muhammad (SAW). The Muslims signed a treaty with the Pagans of Mekkah, and several agreements in the treaty seemed like it caused a great loss for the Muslims - especially because the Muslims who were from Mekkah had to return to Mekkah. And yet, Allah revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) in the Qur'an, "Verily, We have given you (O Muhammad) a manifest victory" (Al-Fath 48:1). And true enough, as historians quote, as a result of the Treaty Of Hudaibiyah, thousands of Mushrikeen embraced Islam (if i'm not mistaken, more than double the number of Muslims since before the treaty!).
Just like 911 somehow caused many other non-Muslims to be interested in Islam, and more actually in turn embraced islam, could this murder conspiracy also be a victory/blessing in disguise? Could this be the Hudaibiyah of our day? Allahu a'lam...a little optimism never hurts, friends
Yes, on one hand it seems like a tragedy, but we as people who are still alive can learn a lot from this story. Forget for a moment that this is a conspiracy, and think about the amazing journey that MJ went through. The journey from Michael Jackson, King of Pop, to Mikael, the believing Muslim. Regardless of the authenticity of the story above, i still find it a very touching and inspiring story... may Allah grant us with the wisdom to take the best lessons from Mikael. We pray that MJ died a Muslim, insya Allah, and that Allah accepts his submission to Him.
BarakAllahu feekum
Can anybody spot the 2 dudes with the jenggots?
The Miri brotherhood of Archery 